Holder for liquid-containers



"w. F. CLOSE. HOLDER FOR LIQUID CONTAINERS. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9| I9IIQ.

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Attorney.

WILLIAM F. CLOSE, OF WATERLOO', IGWA.

HOLDER FOR LIQUID-CONTAINERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4, 1920.

Application filed January 9, 1919. Serial No. 270,358.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. CLosn, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of WVaterloo, Blackhawk county, .Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Holders for Liquid-Containers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in holders for liquid containers, and the object of my improvement is to furnish for liquid containing vessels, and particularly for reservoirs having special delivery devices, a holding device, which will be formed for adjustment in mounting it upon projections of varying widths, and which will also have supporting and clasping means for receiving and holding such a reservoir removably.

This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the ac companying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved device, with parts broken away, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the suspension hanger for the reservoir thereof.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The reservoir for liquids of my device may be a common fruit-j ar 1 having the usual screw-cap 2, or may be of any other desirable form. The reservoir-cap 2 is sup lied with an air-port tube 3 for entrance 0 air, preventing the formation of a vacuum in the reservoir. 7

An orifice 4: is supplied in the bottom of said reservoir to permit the passage of the threaded end 7 of a tubular part of a valvechamber 8, the latter having a rock-valve therein actuated manually by the usual external finger-piece, and said valve-chamber has a vent-tube or terminally thickened nipple 9 to removably receive thereover an end of an elastic tube 10 which has on its other end a terminal syringe nipple 11.

the reservoir may be filled by mere removal of the screw-cap 2.

I have shown, however, convenient means for detachably adjust-ably supporting or hanging said reservoir 1 on supports of varying widths. This consists of a resilient flat split-ring 12, preferably outwardly flanged along its upper edge to insure suificient'stiffness, to inclose and yieldingly resiliently rip the lower part of said reservoir 1. This split-ring may be suspended from a wall or other support on a nail or other projection by the following described hanger, or any mechanical equivalent thereof.

The numeral 18 denotes a rod bent and formed into a closed loop, of which the upper part comprising the like downwardly divergent or A-shaped limbs 13 is used to hang upon any suitable projection, the A-shape permitting hanging on projections of different widths, and insuring firm frictional contact therewith due to the weight of the suspended bodies.

Said rod is bent forwardly at 14 toward the split-ring 12, then bent downwardly at 15 to contact with the ring vertically, then bent under the ring 12, forming the closed semi-circular part 16 which crosses and underlies the bottom of the reservoir 1 and supports same. The rod parts 15 may be secured to the split-ring 12 by any desired means, such as by soldering.

The reservoir 1 is easily and quickly placed in or removed from the split-ring 12 and the supporting rod-part 16, the interspace between the split-ring ends permitting passage therebetween of the parts of the delivery-device suspended below said reservoir. Since the bottom of the reservoir is slightly domed, any sedimental matters in the liquid contents of the reservoir will settle in the lower part of the reservoir, to not pass away through the syringe, but may be removed from the reservoir before refilling. The air-tube 3 prevents vacuum in the reservoir, insuring free delivery.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

Holding-means for liquid containers, com prising a rod bent and having its nds united to form an inverted V-shape hanger adaptable to receive Varying widths of projecting supports between its divergent members, the lower parts thereof belng offset, a resilient split-ring fixedly mounted on the offset parts and the lower parts of the said offset parts being bent into a closed loop crossing and underlying the bottom of said split-ring to support a container removably clasped by the sp1it-rin Signed at Waterloo, %owa, this 23rd day of December, 1918.

WILLIAM F. CLOSE. 

